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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      12 Apr 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Research Triangle Park, NC
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Cisco (Research Triangle Park, NC) in Apr 2012

      Interview

      Initial contact was made by recruiter. The hiring manager subsequently went out of town for a week. That's why it took ten days. There was no phone prescreen; I only did an on-site interview. I met with the software manager, who would also be making the hiring decision, in her office. She told me a little bit about the team and what was she trying to accomplish with building the team. Shortly thereafter, the tech lead joined us in her office. The tech lead asked me to go over my previous job(s). He had some light technical questions, which were all easy to answer. This took maybe half an hour. After that, the tech lead left, and I spent another 20 minutes or so talking to the manager alone about the team and their processes. The Cisco campus is pretty big. They have a cafeteria, a gym, volleyball courts, etc. It's easy to see why they make the Best Places to Work list regularly. The atmosphere is pretty laid back. The development manager was wearing shorts and a Mickey Mouse t-shirt. The tech lead was wearing jeans and sandals. They also seemed pretty flexible when it came to work-life balance issues. I wanted the job, but they said I was "overqualified". Since the interview was through a recruiter, they knew my rate before they set up the interview, so I don't think "overqualified" means "too expensive" in this case.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What are the possible scopes for a Spring bean?
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      Sr. Software Engineer Interview

      29 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru)

      Interview

      I applied for the position and successfully attended the screening and coding round. The interview mainly focused on C programming and networking concepts, including IP subnetting, bitwise operations, and implementing logic to verify if an IP belongs to a subnet. There were also questions on TCP/UDP and debugging concepts. After the interview, I followed up with the recruiter, who shared that based on the feedback, my profile will not proceed further.

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      6 Jan 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Dec 2025

      Interview

      After applying on site I was reached by a recruiter which asked a few role specific questions and scheduled an technical interview with the recruiting manager. First interview: Introduction, tell me about yourself etc and the main question was "Talk about a system that you worked on end to end". Second Interview: System design interview. Role specific system, nothing special just a bit tricky. (not design youtube or twitter or anything like that).

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Talk about a system that you worked on end to end.
      Answer question

      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      24 Oct 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Cisco (Bengaluru) in Oct 2025

      Interview

      I was reached out by the recruiter, and the interview was scheduled for the next week. Enough time was given to me for the preparation. Total of 5 rounds were planned in advanced, and I was told I will proceed to the next rounds if I clear the previous rounds. (Eliminations) First Round: General discussion on what I have worked on. No surprises. Second Round: A practical coding questions, mix of low level and high level system design. Interviewer gave clear instructions about what is expected in each task. This round went smoothly from my point of view. Third Round: This was the round where things went upside down. Interviewer joined 30 minutes late, and seemed uninterested. The interviewer did not follow the basic etiquettes. He spend 5-10 minutes reading my resume on spot, with no communication and awkward silence. Next 10-15 minutes followed on general question about what I had worked on in the past. Then I was given a puzzle question, with certain constraints (No code required, verbal solution was asked). I could not solve it optimally. Even the interviewer was confused and he couldn't solve it with the constraints given. (After the interview, I googled the solution for the same problem, and came to know the constraints were a little different). Got a call from the recruiter after 30 minutes that I was not selected, and need not join for the next rounds. TLDR: Difficulty wise I would say the interview was of medium difficulty. DSA - Leetcode easy and easy-medium. System Design - Practical questions, no surprises. Low Level Design - Practical questions which most developers would have already worked on. But a lot depends on the interviewer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      System Design: Design a distributed message queue. Low Level Design: Design a rate limiter. Coding: From the two streams of very large numbers (not able to fit in int64 or float64), calculate the running sum and send the response over the third stream. Puzzle: You have a set of 8 balls. 7 are of the same weight, and 1 is of different weight (may be lighter, may be heavier). Find the odd weight ball in minimum number of tries using a weighing scale.
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